"It's time! Let's go." Two little girls, one a blonde, pail skin, and the other a dark, curly haired, dark skinned little girl swooped down under the pew at church, dodging the exiting masses and dashed out the door, hand in hand. "We get to go to class! Hurry, hurry!," says the blonde little girl. They run down the hall, hand in hand laughing and giggling bumping into the slower folk not quite as ambitious to get to their class. Suddenly the little girl with dark curls hanging down her face began to cry. "No, no not to class!," and put on the breaks. The little blonde wraps her arms through her friends and says, "it'll be fun, let's go!" Urging her along as she begins to weep, the two little girls reach the classroom, arm in arm. The site of the rows of chairs was just too much, the little dark, curly haired girl began to cry full force. The little blonde girl wraps her little arms around her friend and pulls her friend close to her, stroking her hair as her friend collapsed into her lap, wrapping her arms around her sobbing. The little blonde lovingly and patiently rubs her friends back, smiling down at her friend as she comforts her.
As I watched my little Annie be such a good friend, leader, and example, I couldn't help but have a proud mama moment! Just this morning she was in time out three times before we went to church for pushing her brother... but than there are the tender mercies such as these that give me hope that I am not ruining my kids and that truly they are the coolest kids around.
On the other side of the hall, James took Hank to nursery, cruising right by the other little kids begging not to have to go, and runs right in, not looking back.
I know the next one will probably give us more problems... (lets hope the trend stays strong though!) But I am grateful that we have been trusted with such awesome kids in our family.
That is so awesome. Your kids are great. There is hope for the third, so far ours has been great.
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